Meditation as Medicine
Recurring Workshop with Katie Malachuk
UPCOMING SATURDAYS:
September 28, OCTOBER 19, & NOVEMBER 9
10am-12pm in person at Pure Land Farms
$150 for 3 Session Workshop ; includes a copy of the book!
Meditation as Medicine is a THREE-session workshop LED BY KATIE MALACHUK that uniquely combines healing with spirituality, based on Dr. Nida’s Chenagtsang’s latest book Let Meditation be thy Medicine: The Timeless Healing Wisdom of Tibet.
In this workshop, you will learn your elemental typology, according to Sowa Rigpa (Traditional Tibetan Medicine) and which types of meditation and spiritual practices are best suited for your typology (wind, fire, or earth/water).
Each session will include instruction, discussion, practice, and homework. The practices to be explored include:
Contemplation
Calm abiding meditation
Analytical meditation
Visualization meditation
Breathwork
Gentle and accessible yoga
Mantra healing
This workshop is appropriate for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. It serves as an introduction to Tantric Buddhism and Sowa Rigpa as well as an opportunity to deepen and personalize an established practice. It is a perfect starting point for those wondering how to initially engage with Pure Land Farms retreats, Sowa Rigpa, and/or the Yuthok Nyingthig.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Amdo, in Northeastern Tibet, Dr. Nida began his early studies of Sowa Rigpa at the local Tibetan medical hospital. Later, he was awarded a scholarship to enter the Lhasa Mentseekhang or Tibetan Medical University, where he completed his degree in 1996, with practical training at the Tibetan Medicine hospitals in Lhasa and Lhoka.
Alongside his medical education, Dr. Nida trained in Vajrayana with teachers from every school of Tibetan Buddhism. In particular, he trained in the Longchen Nyingthig tradition of the Nyingma school with his root guru Ani Ngawang Gyaltsen and in the Dudjom Tersar tradition with Chönyi Rinpoche and Semo Dechen Yudrön. He received complete instruction in the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage, the unique spiritual tradition of Tibetan Medicine, from his teachers Khenpo Tsultrim Gyaltsen and Khenchen Troru Tsenam, and was requested to continue the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage by Jamyang Rinpoche of the Rebkong ngakpa and ngakma community.
A well-known poet in his youth, Dr. Nida later published many articles and books on Sowa Rigpa and the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition in Tibetan and English, which have been translated into several languages. He has extensively researched ancient Tibetan healing methods, and has gained acclaim in East and West for his revival of little-known Tibetan external therapies.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Katie Malachuk (Harvard BA, Stanford MBA, Naropa MDiv) is chaplain, writer, and teacher. She is the editor of Let Meditation be thy Medicine and author of Disrupt Yourself: The Subversive Spiritual Practice That Changes Everything. She is a student of the Yuthok Nyingthig and also the Palyul Ling lineage. Katie has been teaching meditation and yoga for nearly twenty years in a wide range of settings from yoga studios to universities to hospitals to alternative-to-incarceration programs.
